SYMPOSIUM, 23rd March 2011
Professor Aleksandar Boškovic (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade)
The complicated relationship between anthropologists’ insistence on the study of societies (through research on “social structure”, “cultural patterns”, or similar phenomena) will be put in the context of its development in three geographically, politically and culturally very different national traditions. Using examples from Norway, Brazil, and former Yugoslavia, Aleksander Boskovic asks whether a more individualistic approach could help understand patterns that shaped the development of anthropology in these countries, and how a more thorough understanding of these traditions could be gained.